saltish
Example Sentences
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They sipped on their saltish Kashmiri pink tea a little longer instead of starting on the buffet their host had set out.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 23, 2017
The termination ish added to adjectives, expresses a slight degree of quality below the comparative; as, black, blackish; salt, saltish.
From English Grammar in Familiar Lectures by Samuel Kirkham
El Heymedj, a station having sweet and saltish water.
From Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred by John Lewis Burckhardt
The saltish old fellow chuckled deep in his hairy throat.
From The Corner House Girls Under Canvas How they reached Pleasant Cove and what happened afterward by Grace Brooks Hill
"It was found to be saltish to the taste, and to dissolve readily in water."
From The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort
